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Sunday Gathering (12/11)
December 11, 2022 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Join us Sunday!
Central Park Place (Mackinaw Ballroom, 421 Columbus Ave., GH)
9:00 a.m. Pre-Talk, In Person
10:00 a.m. Gathering, In Person + Livestream on Facebook (facebook.com/c3westmi)
10:00 a.m.: C3 Kids, In Person with Miss Mary
11:00 a.m.: Talk Back, In Person
Sunday, December 11, 2022
The Great Questions
What can the birth of Christ teach us in a post-religious world?
Gathering Host: David Dean
Music: Max Lockwood
Meditation: Wayne Johnson
Moment of Silence
Music: Max Lockwood
Readings/Teaching: Kent Dobson
We all carry in our innermost selves a sacred core of potential wholeness or aliveness or creativity and that this radiant center wants to unfold and realize itself through the particularities of our unique individual lives…[this] is the first part of a two-stage drama…This unfolding tendency, conspiring toward the full realization of one’s personhood, is often represented as a child or sometimes as an animal or other living being. Often this child has something sacred or divine about it…born “between the worlds”…Then there is a second ‘act’ to the play, namely the idea that trauma interrupts this unfolding of personality by foreclosing the transitional space through which the vital spark is actualized and that this interruption of human development can trigger a system in the psyche that attacks and tries to “kill” the emerging child…This effort to ‘kill’ the soul/child is not usually an effort to annihilate it altogether…but to eliminate consciousness of it, and actually, in the final analysis, save it! Instead of annihilation, we see in dreams that the child has gone into exile – we would say into the unconscious – where it lives in suspended animation until some future time when it can reemerge. Donald Kalsched, Trauma and the Soul
Music: Max Lockwood
Gathering Host: David Dean
Music: Max Lockwood
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